Step into the wild world of African safaris with 'Death in the Long Grass,' a gripping account by renowned hunter and author Peter Hathaway Capstick.
Title: Death in the Long Grass
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick
Photographs by: M. Philip Kahl
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (New York)
Publication Date: 1977
Edition: First Edition (Stated 1977 copyright with no subsequent printings listed on the copyright page).
Binding & Design:
Original publisher's two-tone hardcover featuring an olive-green cloth spine and tan paper-covered boards.
Spine features the title and author stamped in a faded gold/yellow font.
Designed with standard cut, rough-textured page edges.
Condition Notes: Good / Vintage Reading Copy.
Exterior: The two-tone boards are structurally square and flat. The olive-green cloth spine shows some light fading, and the gold spine text is noticeably dulled/faded but remains legible. Minor bumping and shelf rubbing along the corner tips and spine headcaps.
Binding: The internal text block remains securely bound to the hinges.
Interior: The interior pages are clean and intact, showing mild, uniform age-toning. The classic hunting photographic plates remain distinct.
Interesting Historical Fact: Peter Hathaway Capstick didn't start his career tracking dangerous man-eaters in the African bush; he actually started it as a Wall Street stockbroker. Born in New Jersey, he spent his early adulthood wearing a suit, commuting to New York City, and working successfully in commercial banking and Wall Street brokerage firms.
Experiencing a profound "mid-life reboot," he walked away from the financial sector entirely in his late twenties to become a professional white hunter and safari guide in Central and Southern Africa. Death in the Long Grass was his very first book, channeling his narrow escapes from lions, leopards, and wounded cape buffaloes into a gripping, visceral narrative style that completely revolutionized outdoor adventure writing for the late 20th century.
Step into the wild world of African safaris with 'Death in the Long Grass,' a gripping account by renowned hunter and author Peter Hathaway Capstick.
Title: Death in the Long Grass
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick
Photographs by: M. Philip Kahl
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (New York)
Publication Date: 1977
Edition: First Edition (Stated 1977 copyright with no subsequent printings listed on the copyright page).
Binding & Design:
Original publisher's two-tone hardcover featuring an olive-green cloth spine and tan paper-covered boards.
Spine features the title and author stamped in a faded gold/yellow font.
Designed with standard cut, rough-textured page edges.
Condition Notes: Good / Vintage Reading Copy.
Exterior: The two-tone boards are structurally square and flat. The olive-green cloth spine shows some light fading, and the gold spine text is noticeably dulled/faded but remains legible. Minor bumping and shelf rubbing along the corner tips and spine headcaps.
Binding: The internal text block remains securely bound to the hinges.
Interior: The interior pages are clean and intact, showing mild, uniform age-toning. The classic hunting photographic plates remain distinct.
Interesting Historical Fact: Peter Hathaway Capstick didn't start his career tracking dangerous man-eaters in the African bush; he actually started it as a Wall Street stockbroker. Born in New Jersey, he spent his early adulthood wearing a suit, commuting to New York City, and working successfully in commercial banking and Wall Street brokerage firms.
Experiencing a profound "mid-life reboot," he walked away from the financial sector entirely in his late twenties to become a professional white hunter and safari guide in Central and Southern Africa. Death in the Long Grass was his very first book, channeling his narrow escapes from lions, leopards, and wounded cape buffaloes into a gripping, visceral narrative style that completely revolutionized outdoor adventure writing for the late 20th century.
